After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right ...
Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, a federal agency withdrew a proposal to protect North Atlantic right whales from vessel ...
The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...
An anti-offshore wind group is petitioning the federal government to establish a safe corridor for critically endangered ...
In New Jersey, the zone would have been in effect from Nov. 1 to May 1, a time when the right whale migrates off the coast here. The effort was aimed to reduce vessel strikes to the critically ...
The rule was proposed in August 2022 with the goal of limiting the number of North Atlantic Right Whale deaths.
The proposed rules would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters in an attempt to save the endangered ...
The U.S. government recently dropped a proposed rule aimed at protecting the endangered North Atlantic right whale, a ...
expanded seasonal slow zones to account for known right whale habitat and made reactive slow zones mandatory, not voluntary. Current seasonal slow zones and speed limits were established in 2008.
The U.S. federal government has rescinded its proposal to strengthen regulations on boat speeds along the East Coast. Fewer ...